| Investment Approach- Diverification by Global across industries |
We have a stable but aggressive investment approach, extensive due diligence focus, global reach, substandial transaction and financing expertise and focus on operational oversignt. The following are some of the core investment principles our corporate private equity funds.
| Corporate Partnerships & Expertise |
Corporate Partnership transactions, transactions in which we invest capital alongside a major corporation, represent a signature form of private equity investing for us. We believe that teaming up with corporate partners enables us to benefit from access to their knowledge base and anticipated synergies and to compete more effectively against other bidders.
Our corporate private equity investment professionals have expertise in all major industries. In addition, we have access to the sector expertise of a broad array of former senior corporate executives with whom we have established informal and formal proprietary advisory relationships and who work closely with our private equity professionals, helping us to source and analyze potential investment opportunities.
We believe that private equity investing in emerging countries, outside China provides attractive opportunities, and we are therefore pursuing private equity opportunities throughout the world. We plan on using a similar approach to expand our reach in the greater China region and other Asian countries. We believe we are one of a limited number of private equity firms with the advantage of access to a full range of cross-regional opportunities. We also believe our global reach helps us to better assist our portfolio companies in dealing with developments across various regions of the world, sourcing add-on acquisition opportunities, entering new markets and outsourcing operations to reduce costs.
| Securities Investing about the hightime in crisis |
We believe that we have a competitive advantage in periods of weaker economic conditions or uncertainty in the debt or equity capital markets. Through our restructuring and reorganization advisory business and our distressed securities hedge fund, we have access to investment opportunities and expertise regarding companies in financial distress that many of our competitors lack. We have often invested in distressed securities when those opportunities have presented themselves.
